Ryan Walker

Ryan Walker (MFA, Ryerson University) is an award-winning, Toronto-based photographer and filmmaker specializing in social documentary and visual advocacy.

His abiding interest lies in the interdependence of geographical and corporeal bodies. How does location shape subjectivity, and vice versa? How might documenting a place and its people simultaneously confirm clichés while throwing them into relief?

These questions inform all of Ryan’s projects, which have taken him from remote off-grid communities to crowded urban streets, where he conveys an intimate sense of place in a poetic and emotional form. Ryan’s work is also sympathetic to the ecological effects of the economic exploitation of the land that surrounds us.

Inspired by a curiosity about the so-called authenticity of identity being influenced by the surrounding environment, Ryan’s work blurs the lines between photojournalism, documentary and conceptual art.